COVID-19 Related Stressors, Parent-Child Relationship, and Alcohol Use and Mental Health Profiles Among White and Hispanic/Latinx First-Year College Students

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COVID-19 Related Stressors, Parent-Child Relationship, and Alcohol Use and Mental Health Profiles Among White and Hispanic/Latinx First-Year College Students

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Published on March 4, 2022

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doi: 10.1007/s10578-022-01337-4.

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871104, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA. jinnisu1@asu.edu.
² Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871104, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.

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Jinni Su et al.

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev.

2022.

doi: 10.1007/s10578-022-01337-4.

Online ahead of print.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871104, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA. jinnisu1@asu.edu.
² Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871104, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.

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Abstract

Transitioning to college during the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may increase risk for alcohol use and mental health problems. We examined how COVID-19 related stressors and parent-child relationships are independently and interactively associated with alcohol use and mental health profiles in a sample of first-year college students (N = 425, 34.8% Hispanic/Latinx; 74.9% female) who completed an online survey in October 2020. Latent profile analysis identified four profiles: well-adjusted (53.2%), mental health problems only (21.6%), alcohol use only (17.4%), and comorbid (7.8%). COVID-19 related stressful events increased risk of being in the alcohol use only and comorbid profiles, whereas COVID-19 related worries increased risk of being in the mental health problems only profile. Parent-child relationship quality lowered risk of being in the mental health problems only and the comorbid profiles. In addition, parent-child relationship quality moderated the role of COVID-19 related worries such that COVID-19 related worries were associated with lower odds of being in the comorbid profile when parent-child relationship quality was high but not when parent-child relationship quality was low. Strengthening parent-child relationship quality appears important for promoting college students’ well-being.

Keywords:

Alcohol; COVID-19; Mental health; Parent–child relationship; Person-centered analysis.

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